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[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
I'm not commenting about automation, at all. I'm specifically pointing to the way the article lambastes the union as the primary cause of the issue, when the fact of the matter was the Union was perhaps the most blameless of all parties involved in this debacle.
The problem was not the union, it was the way Management mismanaged the capital the company had on-hand, specifically raiding the pension-fund, then giving themselves golden parachutes as the company went down, then turned around to try to blame it on the workers/union. Had they managed the company properly, not given themselves golden parachutes after gutting the company, and not raided the pension funds for a bit of extra operating capital, it's likely they would not have had this issue in the first place.
Automation is an entirely different argument.